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What happens to U.S. workers without access to Unemployment Insurance amid economic downturns or disruptions related to AI? (opens in a new tab)

Essays Sep 2, 2026

The adoption of artificial intelligence in the workplace has led to predictions of U.S. labor market disruptions. In response, policymakers have increased attention on the fitness of the nation’s social…

AI, Tech & Energy Economic Equity & Opportunity Labor, Wages & Worker Power Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement

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Defining extreme wealth is more complicated than it looks (opens in a new tab)

Videos Aug 13, 2026

Facing high levels of income and wealth inequality and shrinking tax revenues, U.S. policymakers are showing increased interest in proposals to tax the richest households. Yet determining which households fall into that category is complex and changes based…

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Estimating AI exposure is useful for research but cannot yet tell policymakers the whole story of AI’s impact on the labor market (opens in a new tab)

Essays Aug 7, 2026

Artificial intelligence has the potential to substantially change the nature and availability of work. To effectively manage the transitions this technology might bring to the U.S. economy, policymakers need information…

AI, Tech & Energy Economic Equity & Opportunity Labor, Wages & Worker Power Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement

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The debt-to-wealth ratio: A missing lens on the U.S. government’s fiscal capacity (opens in a new tab)

Reports Jul 30, 2026

Few statistics shape the fiscal debate in the United States as powerfully as the ratio of federal debt-to-Gross Domestic Product. Debt held by the public recently surpassed 100 percent of…

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Whether data from the Fed or from WID.world are used, U.S. debt-to-wealth measures show similar trends (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Jul 22, 2026

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The United States sits in the middle of the pack on debt relative to wealth (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Jul 22, 2026

Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement Taxation

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• Daniel Reck (opens in a new tab) Assistant Professor of Economics

  University of Maryland

• Javier Cravino (opens in a new tab) Associate Professor

  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• Andrei Levchenko (opens in a new tab) Professor of Economics

  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• Samir Sonti (opens in a new tab) Assistant Professor of Urban Studies

  CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies

• Susan Yackee (opens in a new tab) Director and Professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs

  University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Scott Nelson (opens in a new tab) Assistant Professor of Finance

  University of Chicago

• Stefanie Stantcheva (opens in a new tab) Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy

  Harvard University

• Emi Nakamura (opens in a new tab) Chancellor’s Professor of Economics

  University of California, Berkeley

• Karen Dynan (opens in a new tab) Professor of the Practice, Department of Economics

  Harvard University

• Jon Steinsson (opens in a new tab) Chancellor's Professor of Economics

  University of California, Berkeley

• Will Dobbie (opens in a new tab) Professor of Public Policy

  Harvard University

• Janet L. Yellen (opens in a new tab) Secretary of the Treasury

  U.S. Department of the Treasury

• Yair Listokin (opens in a new tab) Shibley Family Fund Professor of Law

  Yale University

• Ravi Jagadeesan (opens in a new tab) Assistant Professor

  Stanford University

• Piotr Dworczak (opens in a new tab) Assistant Professor of Economics

  Northwestern University

• Mohammad Akbarpour (opens in a new tab) Associate Professor of Economics

  Stanford University

• Jacob Orchard (opens in a new tab) Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

  University of California, San Diego

• Christian Wolf (opens in a new tab) Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

  Princeton University

• John Sabelhaus (opens in a new tab) Nonresident Senior Fellow

  Brookings Institution

• Umberto Muratori (opens in a new tab) Max Weber Post-doctoral Fellow

  European University Institute

• Scott Duke Kominers (opens in a new tab) MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration

  Harvard University

• David Kamin (opens in a new tab) Deputy Director

  National Economic Council

• David Johnson (opens in a new tab) Senior Program Officer

  National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

• David Grusky (opens in a new tab) Edward Ames Edmonds Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences

  Stanford University

• Gordon Phillips (opens in a new tab) Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration

  Dartmouth College

• Gauti Eggertsson (opens in a new tab) Professor of Economics

  Brown University

• Gabriel Zucman (opens in a new tab) Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality

  University of California, Berkeley

• Ethan Kaplan (opens in a new tab) Associate Professor of Economics

  University of Maryland

• Gabriel Chodorow-Reich (opens in a new tab) Professor of Economics

  Harvard University

• Amir Sufi (opens in a new tab) Bruce Lindsay Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Public Policy

  University of Chicago